Chronicle EditorJohn 16 vs 33; “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
Have you ever prayed and prayed and prayed, and have been met by stone cold silence? Have you wondered and given up on the promise that God can hear your prayers?
We have all said prayers that have gone unanswered and we have been confronted with God’s silence, where we have not been able to hear Him, see Him or even feel His presence.
In moments like that it feels as if the world has totally turned against you, you feel alone, helpless, desperate and troubled.
I am sure you have experienced this so many times and you have not known what to make of it. A colleague of mine told me not so long ago that they totally felt let down by God.
As I listened to those words, I could understand the human emotion associated with what they were saying and I could comprehend what they were feeling. There are times when you feel so hopeless, abandoned and abused, that you curse the very day you were born. One of the most difficult things to fathom is when God appears distant and silent.
Moses wandered the wilderness for forty years, having given up his life of privilege to a life of hardship and solitude as a shepherd.
Gone were the days when people fussed over him and his every move was applauded and watched. In this place he now called home, he was subjected to toil and long lonely hours in the arid wilderness tending his father-in -law’s flocks.
The rest of the story of Moses is a story known to us, God used him in a mighty way to free and lead His people.
In those forty years as a shepherd, not once did he know that he would one day be the person he would become and would hear directly from God on a constant basis.
Such is the way of our Lord that at times we think He has left us for good and His voice can not be heard or His presence felt, yet He is working in the background to help us achieve great things.
Be Blessed.
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